Description: Between 1914 and 1953, more than 1,500,000 Canadians served overseas - more than 100,000 died. Every November 11th, Canadians across the country pause in a silent moment of remembrance for these men and women who served our country.

Description: Aside from creating the Royal Canadian Airforce in 1924, the Canadian government avoided large expenditures for developing its armed forces between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the Second World War.

Description: In 1931, Great Britain passed the Statute of Westminster, giving Canada the legal status of an independent country. During the years between the two world wars, Canada avoided overseas military commitments, but began to modernize and re-equip its forces in the mid-1930s in case of another major war.

Description: Georgina Pope served at British hospitals just north of Cape Town, South Africa, as senior sister in 1899. In 1908 she attained the position of matron, first in the history of Canadian Army Medical Corps.

Description: As an official war artist with the RCAF, Schaefer served with Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Commands in the United Kingdom and Iceland. His paintings, sketchbooks, and war diaries are retained in the art collection of the Canadian War Museum.

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